The Frozen Man

Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
 Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
 Ice in the rigging and howling wind
 Shock to my body as we tumbled in
 Then my brothers and the others are lost at sea
 I alone am returned to tell thee
 Hidden in ice for a century
 To walk the world again
 Lord, have mercy on the frozen man
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 Next words that were spoken to me
 Nurse asked me what my name might be
 She was all in white at the foot of my bed
 I said, "Angel of mercy, I'm alive or am I dead?"
 My name is William James McPhee
 I was born in 1843
 Raised in Liverpool by the sea
 But that ain't who I am
 Lord have mercy on the frozen man
 It took a lot of money to start my heart
 To peg my leg and to buy my eye
 The newspapers call me State of the art
 And the children, when they see me, cry
 I thought it'd be nice just to visit my grave
 See what kind of tombstone I might have
 I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange
 Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age
 See here, when I die make sure I'm gone
 Don't leave 'em nothing to work on
 You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand
 And you can wave goodbye to the frozen man
 I know what it means to freeze to death
 To lose a little life with every breath
 To say goodbye to life on earth
 To come around again
 Lord have mercy on the frozen man
 Lord have mercy on the frozen man